Omans sultan Qabus död – satt längst i arabvärlden
Qabus bin Said Al Said, sultan av Oman, har dött vid 79 års ålder. Han efterträds av sin kusin, den tidigare kulturministern Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, rapporterar statliga medier.
Sultan Qabus har varit statschef i Oman sedan han 1970 avsatte sin far i en blodlös kupp. Tillsammans med Storbritanniens drottning Elizabeth och Bruneis sultan Hassanal Bolkiah var han den statschef i världen som suttit längst.
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Wikipedia (en)
Qaboos bin Said Al Said (Arabic: قابوس بن سعيد آل سعيد, IPA: [qaː.buːs bin sa.ʕiːd ʔaːl sa.ʕiːd]; 18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020. A fourteenth-generation descendant of the founder of the House of Al Said, he was the longest-serving leader in the Middle East and Arab world.The only son of Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat and Oman, Qaboos received education in England and was a graduate of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He returned to Oman in 1966 and was placed under virtual house arrest by his father. In 1970, Qaboos ascended to the Omani throne after overthrowing his own father in a coup d'état, with British support. The country was subsequently re-named the Sultanate of Oman.
Qaboos implemented a policy of modernization and development, and brought an end to Oman's international isolation. His reign saw a rise in living standards and development in the country, the abolition of slavery, the end of the Dhofar Rebellion and the promulgation of Oman's constitution. Suffering from poor health in later life, Qaboos died in 2020, naming Haitham bin Tariq Al Said his heir.
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